Thread: Midnight In Paris

Originally Posted by Dr. Naysay

So... do you actually know who this reviewer is and trust his opinion or did you just look and look until you found the one reviewer who DIDN'T like this movie?

EDIT : And on a completely whiny and overly dramatic note....

I find it in poor taste that you would even bother contributing links to negative reviews of a film you yourself have refused to see not based on any artistic merit but on your personal distaste for the filmmaker.

Whoa, baby. I come across link reviews and I post 'em. Unfortunately, most of the positive reviews of this I saw came out before you started this thread, and I ain't back-searching.

I skimmed the article (I never read full reviews of movies I haven't seen) looking for a summary paragraph to quote, but didn't see one.

And I do believe I have said that I do not "refuse to see" Woody Allen movies, just that I'm not sure where I stand on paying to see them. I still have my DVD of Annie Hall and I have no plans to be rid of it.

Also,

Is ‘Midnight In Paris’ An Oscar Contender? > The Playlist

Reviews: MIDNIGHT IN PARIS Review

To say more would spoil the adventure, but suffice it to say that the bulk of the movie is a lilting, literary, lovely, and luminous trip, a marvelous way to explore the issues that most affect Gil, and quite unlike any "mid-life" crisis that I've seen before.

In part, of course, that's because Woody Allen is at the helm.

Having made dozens of pictures, criss-crossing often through the broad avenues of wealth, privilege, and neurosis, Allen has developed a distinct motif -- make that numerous motifs -- that reoccur often and, perhaps, without Allen even realizing it himself. He writes to his strengths, and his films live and die on the material. Midnight in Paris is his best material in years.

Doc, how much Marion Cotillard do we get in this film?

I think most of you are taking **** too seriously. A film is a film. People suck and will always suck. People make good films and bad films. It's simple, just watch whatever the **** you want, and who gives a flying **** what anyone else thinks.

Woody Allen on Making Midnight in Paris - ComingSoon.net

Woody Goes Wide: Behind the Success of 'Midnight In Paris' - indieWIRE

Originally Posted by adgy-san

Reviews: MIDNIGHT IN PARIS Review



Doc, how much Marion Cotillard do we get in this film?

Just enough for the role shes playing.

It's not a "great film" but it fits into my category of a "Perfect Film".

Originally Posted by Dr. Naysay

Just enough for the role shes playing.

It's not a "great film" but it fits into my category of a "Perfect Film".

Just for parameters sir, what else is in that folder?

Originally Posted by jerseydevil

Just for parameters sir, what else is in that folder?

Well I have my list... but the two examples I think best fit are

Midnight Run
Groundhog Day

Movies that you would watch over and over and over again without changing a single thing while recognizing that they may not be considered "fine art" or whatever. For what they are... they are perfect.

Obviously it's completely subjective...